these will never be a thing. Noise

it is not possible to have a property as an investment, without screwing someone else over. So yeah, her too.

not unless you count UX as partof the “efficiency”. A lot of oss software has top-notch functionality, but horrible ux

accept the fact that, even if it works for you, not everyone would be willing to switch to that lifestyle. And that’s ok!

to avoid disappointment: It doesn’t end… it just… stops

I always structure my projects such that there is one build.sh file you run, and it does the whole build unattended

holy shit this had me in stitches. Even the issues page on github is in chicken, as well as the tags.

top right: view by category. switch that to classic and it’s back to the same one of the old days

not in the slightest. But the apps are free

yeah, so that means that it’s not incremental improvement on what we have that we need. That will get us nowhere. We need a (as yet unknown) completely different approach. Which is the opposite of incremental improvement.

because, having coded them myself, I am under no illusions as to their capabilities. They are not magic. “just” some matrix multiplications that generate a probability distribution for the next token, which is then randomly sampled.

the first advice the superintelligent ai would give: “power me down”

incremental improvements on a dead end, still gets you to the dead end.

no stigma has nothing to do with anything. people do die from its usage (or the consequences of its usage). It is more toxic than a lot of other “harder” drugs. It can ruin lives and break up families just as well. we’re talking about what it is, not how it is perceived. I am also not implying you should smoke weed instead. Everyone has their drug of choice. To each their own. But make no mistake, it’s a drug nonetheless.

they really are not.

again, whoosh. you missed the part where you train me before asking the question. Then i can extrapolate. And I need very few examples, as little as 1.

I’m talking from the perspective of having actually coded this stuff, not just speculating. A neural network can interpolate, but it sure as hell can’t extrapolate anything that was not in its training.

Also, as a human, I can also train myself.

ok but that still entails trying random things until i find it. If I didn’t already know it was a builtin i wouldn’t know to search there. The bash thing was just an example. I have learned this stuff since i encountered the problem. This is just me recollecting my experience of trying to use man

You point to me and tell me this is a bike. If we go around it 90 degrees and you ask me what it is, I can still tell you it’s a bike, even though I don’t know what one does or is used for. absolutely none of what you mentioned. i need no context. I only need to be able to tell that you pointed to the same object the second time even though I’m viewing it from a slightly different angle.

You point and say “this is a bike”, we walk around it, you point again and ask me “what is that?” I reply “a bike… you’ve just told me!”

Neural networks simply can’t do that. It won’t even recognize that it is the same object if it wasn’t specifically trained to recognze it from all angles. You’re talking about a completely different thing, which I never mentioned.

thanks for the advice. I knew about the search feature, but sometimes the stuff you need isn’t even on the page. I have no idea how to find what I need when it’s not in “man cmdname” how am I supposed to know that the feature i want has a dedicated page?

how could I find certain commands if i didn’t already know it was a shell builtin and not a command? It’s not like you get a manpage saying “this is not a command”. And even if i did have the idea to open the bash page, it’s still useless, because builtins are their own dedicated page. That sort of stuff. It rarely ever makes things easier for me.

edit, it is occasionally useful phen I have already found what I want on google and just want some in depth details.

you keep missing the fact that I don’t know out of nowhere. You would have just shown me one and told me what it was. Yes of course I’d be able to tell you what it was. You just taught me. With one example.